How thrifty are you?

[Jake Armitage]

If you like going to thrift stores how often do you go and how many stores do you typically hit?

I generally go every Thursday and I hit about a dozen stores - there are a few others I only go to occasionally since they never seem to have much of anything.

[Tanooki]

M-F during the school year there are 2 on the way to my kids pick up, so I go into goodwill (2) every day then, and on the weekend instead of those I'll go to another 2 + a St Vincent Depaul looking for stuff. The flea market this year I semi-gave up on because of weird weather and ebay douchebaggery hitting a new high along with just a poor amount of selection compared to years past.

If I ever drive by a thrift and have time, I'll go in. I wouldn't do it every day if it wasn't on my way though as it wouldn't pay off for finding whatever and the value it has. If I were after games I would have stopped that years ago, not much of interest happens around here and while cheaply (wall value thankfully) priced most the time, it's very inconsistent and spread out.

I do it for exercise, a little variety of seeing new stuff, to add to some interest of mine, and sadly as a necessity in some cases to pop online to sell as I thrift because I have no budget for fun and haven't in years.

[JoeAwesome]

If you like going to thrift stores how often do you go and how many stores do you typically hit?

I generally go every Thursday and I hit about a dozen stores - there are a few others I only go to occasionally since they never seem to have much of anything.

I don't go as often as I used to 5, 10 years ago. The days of finding great stuff are few and far in between if you're solely in it for making money, or building a collection for that matter. Any more on it and I'd just be reminiscing about the good ol' days.

[Jake Armitage]

I don't go as often as I used to 5, 10 years ago. The days of finding great stuff are few and far in between if you're solely in it for making money, or building a collection for that matter. Any more on it and I'd just be reminiscing about the good ol' days.

I have been going to them for 40 years or so. I am a little more organized on it now that I am retired. And while I love Mrs. Armitage it is kinda nice to be off on my own for a bit - I find going to thrift stores to be somehow relaxing. And I have enough different things I collect that I can usually find something. Anymore video game stuff is the last thing I expect to find.

[JoeAwesome]

I don't go as often as I used to 5, 10 years ago. The days of finding great stuff are few and far in between if you're solely in it for making money, or building a collection for that matter. Any more on it and I'd just be reminiscing about the good ol' days.

I have been going to them for 40 years or so. I am a little more organized on it now that I am retired. And while I love Mrs. Armitage it is kinda nice to be off on my own for a bit - I find going to thrift stores to be somehow relaxing. And I have enough different things I collect that I can usually find something. Anymore video game stuff is the last thing I expect to find.

Pretty much. My hobbies are diverse, and so are my interests, so I go to a thrift store, I look for a bunch of different things. Generally, I find something non-gaming that I'm interested in, and that's enough for me.

[Tanooki]

See that's what saves it for me, a mix of the unknown, but also a wide set of things I'd find interesting enough to buy.

Just yesterday after dropping some mail off, I went by one, and for under $4 I picked up 2 vintage japanese saki bottles, and one had a pair of nicely matching cups too. Another time two weeks earlier I found a $30 PC game for $3. Yet in the past I've pulled tubs of cheap Lego, antiques, records, a vintage coin holder that clips to a belt, a fuzzy loot rate tribble, and random other things. You never know, but as long as you go in having low to NO expectations of satisfaction, it works better that way.

[marurun]

Saki means ahead. I think you mean sake (pronounced sakeh) bottles

[Tanooki]

Yup, got to love auto-incorrect. I'd turn it off but it would make things infinitely worse.

I do need to get some though, been a very long time since I tasted the stuff and it's good.

I drove a few miles out of my way earlier ago to the next county to buy a $35 grossly overpriced My Arcade Pac Man Pocket Player for $13 at a specific Walmart. It's surprisingly quite good and fun. Totally worth it at that price, perhaps even if they had set it at $20 too. Perfect? No, but more than good enough.

[samsonlonghair]

I’m pretty thrifty. I used to hit two to four different Goodwills on my way home from work every day. I had to scale that back because my man cave is too full. I accumulated an awful lot of electronic distractions. I own more stereo equipment than I reasonably need, and I got it for super cheap. I told myself that I would sell some of this stuff, but it’s kinda heavy, and I don’t like to pay the extra money for shipping.

[Anapan]

When you sell it, the buyer pays shipping. Hard to sell, but if you have the part someone needs, they'll pay shipping. Not happy about it, but when I need something, and there's only one listing that uses Purolator, I've payed thrice the selling price to get that one component I needed.

I visit thrift stores with my parents and grandparent still every other month. High-end audio components are selling for so little. Game systems are selling for market price. Vintage games are not even available - The workers are reserving them for their collections or online auction.